Nickolas Muray and Frida Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican artist/muralist Diego Rivera. It outlived Muray's third marriage, and Kahlo's divorce and remarriage to Rivera, by one year, ending in 1941....
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Clint Roenisch is very pleased to announce By Any Other Name, an exhibition of new sculpture and a short film by Tony Romano. For his first exhibition with the gallery Romano turns his interest to the traditions of figurative representation and Modernism within the history of art as well as the paradox of representation. The new works focus on metaphor in the representation of the figure through ab...
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In this latest series of paintings, Moran takes on the role of a clairvoyant by envisioning the space where life and death intersect. Submerged within vigorous gestural abstractions are scenes in which figures slip in and out of material existence. Broadly inspired by the history of painting, from the mystical underpinnings of William Blake and Paul Gaugin, and the heady abstract expressionism of...
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Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works on paper by Karin Davie. This will be the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and in Toronto. Davie, a leading contemporary abstract painter, introduces two new series of gouache drawings, Liquid Life and Shadow Days. Both series continue Davie’s exploration of abstraction, perception and process.
Karin Davie is best known for...
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Since the late 1980’s Yang Shu has exhibited extensively throughout China - Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong - and internationally - Amsterdam, New York, Sydney. In addition to his individual artistic success, Shu is a professor at the renowned Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and leads an independent artist-run space, Organhaus, which supports multi-media and installation artists.
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Jason McLean's second solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery includes several drawings made over the past year and an array of unique sculptural objects. Together these form a characteristic narrative of the artist's life and work in his cultural and social environment since returning to his native London, Ontario after a restless period of moves from the West Coast back to Central Canada. As...
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The Sobey Art Award is $70,000 with $50,000 going to the winner and $5,000 awarded to each of the other finalists. The Sobey Art Award, established in 2002 is awarded to a Canadian artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial gallery within 18 months of being nominated. It is intended to further the national conversation about contemporary art and is widely recognized as on...
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This installation features a number of works by previous recipients of the Sobey Art Award including Daniel Barrow (2010 – Prairies and the North); Tim Lee (2008 – West Coast & Yukon); Michel de Broin (2007 – Quebec) and Annie Pootoogook (2006 – Prairies and the North). Featuring prints, drawings, photography, sculpture and video installations, this modest selection of art and artists represents a cro...
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Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce Place, Story & Memory, an exhibition of new paintings by John Hartman. The exhibition will open on November 8 and will be on view through December 15 with a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 8 from 6– 8 PM. John Hartman’s latest body of work features watercolour and oil paintings of Georgian Bay, Nova Scotia and New Orleans. Painted fr...
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"These recent paintings explore optics, color relationships and surface quality while forming loose narratives within exotic and impossible mindscapes. In a trance state of intuitive drawing/painting, imagery is built up and disfigured, buried, recycled, reworked, excavated and defaced until a satisfying emotive presence and compositional balance is achieved. Close attention is put on differentiating...
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"Burnt clay, apart from being breakable, is practically indestructible." from On the Shores of Light by Peter Bamm (1961) Using her own domestic space as basis for Garbologic Objects, Maura Doyle has been collecting and studying the stuff around her to create a series of ceramic sculptures and two photo-based works. At her family farm property she sifted the contents of a private dumpsite and col...
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In this new body of work for Peak Gallery Lyn Carter continues to work with forms that are possible within the limits and potential of cloth as a constructed skin. Working with sewing as a gendered activity, Carter aims to make "women's work" sculpture. The sculptures are formed by the way the cloth sections are cut and sewn. Weight is not experienced through mass, though gravity is felt. The monumental is...
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The Clock (2010) is a unique and compelling work created by world-renowned sound and video artist Christian Marclay. The work is an ode to time and cinema, and is comprised of thousands of fragments from a vast range of films that create a 24-hour, looped, single-channel video. Marclay compiled thousands of film clips of wristwatches, clock towers, sundials, alarm clocks, and countdowns, each of whi...
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